"uuuuungh........marsh....mellows................." mutters the unconcious Creature at a barely audible level.

Quote from: Rondo;256122Restore Courage: 3% (passed with flying colors)
(Water) Explore: 73% (failed)

Quote from: wulfgar;256121Unpleasant Order:58% SUCCESS

Creature's head lolls to the side, his arms limp.  Buck scan the arena for signs of water, considering a dowsing attempt, then rushes to the fallen frankenstein's side.  After a few slaps Creature begins to mumble incoherently, "Biggest....stacked....meaty."  Buck smacks him again, a little harder, and with a mighty effort Creature rouses himself from dreams of large women and even larger sandwiches.  His eyes flutter open, and he turns his head and retches.

[Creature is at 1 HP.  If he rests he can recover some hit points and continue.  If he gets hit right now though he'll be knocked unconscious and out of the Brawl for sure.]

Quote from: ttagxamm;255868Rokem Sokem begins to spin side to side on it's vertical axle.  A tin whistle pops out of a hatch on its shoulder, wailing like a far-off locomotive.

Before Creature can sit up there's a tinny bwoing-oing-oinging like the twanging of a giant metal rubber band.  With a shriek as loud as the Iron Hills Express Rokem Sokem streaks past in a red and silver blur.

"LET ME AT THEM I CAME HERE TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND AM FULLY PROGRAMMED TO DO BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY."

Rokem zooms past Buck and Creature, bounces over Tumek and crashes into the line of AWOL klengons, furiously spinning his begloved fists.  One of the deserters staggers back, both eyes blackened by the robot's piston punches.  The klengon keeps his feet but his counter-punch clangs off Rokem's metal noggin.

The rest of the klengon line is in disarray, bamboozled by the bot's biomechanical blitz.*  The clown Wiggy Plop blows a warlike blast on a bicycle horn.  Sugar Ray Rocketblaster shouts insults and struts for a non-existent crowd.  Shifty McJumper and 3M "Triple Muscles" Ragnar charge forward, and the man-frog Leeplo leaps overhead.

Quote from: Coffee;256204...Zarko does his best to jack a canteen of water from one of the Klengons I was sidling past. What the hell; rock and roll.

Halfway to a retreat chute Zarko turns at the sound of Rokem's battle whistle and sees the 'droid rush the klengon line.  Scanning the scene quickly, the ape is surprised at Creature's rally, and intrigued by the confusion among the klengons.  He considers Stealing a canteen from one of the deserters.

[roll 'em if you want to, Coffee]

Quote from: Coffee;256204Okay, so, knocked out isn't out? What about Darryl? Will he be coming back?  Because I'm like totally confused now.....new understanding of the basic laws of reality....

[Quoting Adam Savage of Mythbusters, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"  The thing is, Creech is a trained Warrior and was knocked out but only just.  Darryl is a klutzy wimp with daddy issues who's watched Rocky LXII** one too many times, and was darn near choked to death to boot.

[I guess what I'm going for, simulation-wise (*snerk, ha!*) is the way a fighter gets his bell rung, or even gets knocked out for a bit, and can stagger back to his feet.]

*Man, alliteration.  :rolleyes: Sometimes it's hard to resist.
** Rocky LXII is notable for bringing back the cybernetic ghost of Sylvester Stallion for his final reprisal of the part.

Creature tries to sit up and get over to the edge of the arena with the help of Buck, thinking "Man, that sandwich looks good!" along the way.

OOC: Man, that sandwich looks good.

Zarko lunges at a likely looking deserter, the point being to make him believe I'm attacking but just enough to get him to recoil. Then I can make a grab for the canteen.

(Actually, looking over my character sheet, I HAVE a canteen of my own. But it's more fun to swipe one from an enemy!)

Steal is 35%. I get...38, and just miss it. Bummer.

Then I'll make my way back to Creature, hopefully avoiding any more Klengons on the way.

Quote from: Coffee;256359Zarko lunges at a likely looking deserter, the point being to make him believe I'm attacking but just enough to get him to recoil. Then I can make a grab for the canteen.

Steal is 35%. I get...38, and just miss it. Bummer.

Then I'll make my way back to Creature, hopefully avoiding any more Klengons on the way.

[In fact, I'm factoring in a bonus to Steal due to the klengons' surprised state, so...]

Distracted by an oddball onslaught of dwarves, frog-men and blue elves -- oh my -- Zarko's target doesn't notice him creep up.  The klengon flinches and throws up his arms when the ape jukes him, and Zarko knuckle-jogs off with an extra canteen!

"Whatta punch!! Whatta heart!  Your something else, Creech!", Buck is grinning using all of his might just to support Creature who's arm is tight around his neck, like a drunken Lurch Addams .  He leads him over to take a breather, spotting Zarko heading this way.  Buck's thoughts turn towards Daryl for a minute.  "Geesh, I hope the kid is okay."; he busies himself knocking the dust and blood from the battle off of Creatures clothes.

Flush with victory (of a sort), Zarko triumphantly hands the canteen to Buck.

"Water for our fearless leader!" he cries. "Courtesy of the opponents."

Zarko pauses, grabs the canteen back, opens it, and verifies that it is, in fact, water. If it is, he hands it back to Buck.

"There's such a thing as being too suspicious, of course; but not when you're dealing with Klengons."

It's water.

[On the other hand, if ya'll are feeling lucky: 5% chance it's a healing potion, 5% chance it's klengon "surrender ale."  Given how klengons feel about surrender, the ale is a deadly poison.

JM's roll.]

Is that question directed at Zarko or Creature?

If it's my call, creature will take the roll...what the hey!

[I intended for it to be a group decision, though naturally you'd have veto power.  Let's see what the other two think.]

Well, I kinda just wanted to splash it on his face anyway, personally, not really have him drink it....never good for a fighter....that comes later.  Anyhow, that's my vote.

Quote from: ttagxamm;256155Chief Tallbard turns smartly on his heel, and walks away, his black uniform hugging every inch of his--

Oh, sorry.  Don't know what came over me.  He walks away, anyway.  Yeah.  Now what?

I'll continue with my plan, unless Quazarn objects:

pick the locks, or shoot them off.
have the door closed.
lock the door if it locks, or if not have Quazarn stand against it, so that we know when the Chief's coming back.

[Shooting the locks with your crossbow just ain't gonna work, you quickly deduce.  Maybe if you had some Oliver Queen Model Torsion Bolts.

Just to keep things rolling, go ahead and make 3 percentile rolls for me.]

54, 13, 84

I say we take the chance: A healing potion would be particularly groovy right about now.

And we could always use the "surrender ale" to trick some other unwary fighter...